"But that's loyalty to you, not to me."

Bingmei listened but shook her head, "They are indeed only loyal to me, but the problem is that I am also loyal to you, so doesn't this mean that you indirectly control them?"

"Indirect control? When it comes to controlling people, I don't like indirect control. I like direct control, just like I can control your life and death now."

Zhao Zhen shook his head.

"Then you can use the same methods you used on me on them."

"That's the problem." Zhao Zhen spread his hands, "The means I used on you are not unlimited. To be honest, I just spent a lot of money."

"So you rejected me?"

Bingmei's eyes turned cold.

"Yes, again, they are your people, not mine. I can trust you because I can control your life and death, but I cannot control their life and death."

Zhao Zhen said simply.

This made Bingmei's eyes even colder, but she remained silent.

Zhao Zhen also said nothing, and just looked at Bingmei calmly, with no waves in his eyes.

This is not because he is cruel, nor is he cold, but after experiencing many things such as being framed by his family and the destruction of his sect, he realized a truth.

This truth is that trust is the most luxurious thing in the world.

If he trusts the right person, it is undoubtedly a good thing, just like he trusts his father, mother, and many of his brothers.

They have experienced many lives and deaths together, so Zhao Zhen knows that these people will never betray him and will face danger with him when it comes.

But it's not a good thing if you trust the wrong person.

Just like when he first trusted Zhao Zheng, the fifth brother of the family.

During those years in the family, because he could not practice cultivation, he had been careful in his behavior and tried not to have contact with others. However, he could not stand Zhao Zheng's sincere words, so he believed it once and went to the back mountain.

But the result was that he was framed and imprisoned in an ice prison.

If he hadn't awakened the Ten Thousand Swords Spiritual Root in a desperate situation, then he would have been dead.

Just this incident made him understand that even his family members could betray him at any time for the sake of profit, let alone such a group of people from the enemy Hanxue Dynasty?

Therefore, Zhao Zhen will not trust them unless he can directly control the life and death of these people.

"It seems that you have once again forced me into a situation where I have no choice."

Looking at Zhao Zhen's calm gaze, Bingmei finally lowered her head and said something.

"Don't be so pitiful, you always have a choice." Zhao Zhen shook his head and said calmly, "I still say what I said, you can choose to leave now. As long as you want to leave, I can take back my stay.

The sword intent in your body is restricted, or you can choose to give up on them and just follow me to protect yourself."

"But I don't want to give up on them."

Bingmei said seriously, "Because they are my only relatives now."

"Then it's not that I gave you no choice, it was you who gave you no choice."

Zhao Zhen said again, "You who have experienced so much should know that this world is very cruel, but at the same time it is also very fair. Cruelty is cruel when the weak prey on the strong. There is no right or wrong. Fairness is fair when efforts are rewarded. There are no shortcuts.

place."

Bingmei fell silent again.

She understood what Zhao Zhen meant. She and Zhao Zhen made it clear that it was just an exchange of equal value.

She exchanged her freedom for Zhao Zhen's protection.

If she is like this, then her classmates can only be like this.

After being silent for a long time, suddenly, a fierce look flashed in Bingmei's eyes.

Poof!

There was a sound of penetration, but Bingmei's right hand moved suddenly and suddenly penetrated the left side of her chest!

Xia He suddenly exclaimed, with a look of horror in his eyes.

Zhao Zhen raised his eyebrows, he didn't know what Bingmei was doing.

Bingmei didn't say anything, she just used her right hand to turn over the flesh and blood of her left chest!

Blood flowed out loudly. Although Bingmei's face was expressionless, the trembling of her body betrayed her pain at the moment.

But she still didn't stop, she just continued to turn over. After a moment, Bingmei's palm suddenly froze, and the next moment she suddenly pulled out her right hand!

Wow!

Blood spurted out, which made Bingmei turn pale, but she did not fall down, but spread her blood-covered hands towards Zhao Zhen.

A piece of pure white round jade appeared on it.

"What's this?"

Zhao Zhen looked at the white jade and frowned.

"This... this is the Ice Flame Spirit Jade. It is the symbol of our Ice Flame Sect Master. It is also a heaven-level formation stone with ice attributes."

Bingmei said tremblingly, which made Zhao Zhen's eyes flash. Of course he knew about the formation stones.

The formation stone is a high-strength spiritual stone that depicts the formation. It can also be said to be a proof of a heaven-level formation master.

Although formation masters below the heaven-level formation masters can set up formations, it takes a lot of time to fight against others. They can only wait and lure others into their own formations to deal with them.

There is no doubt that this method of fighting does not have any active offensive effect and is very passive. Therefore, formation masters below the heaven level are not much of a threat in the eyes of ordinary warriors. As long as they avoid the formation range of the formation master, they can defeat them.

Very easy to defeat.

But the formation master who has reached the heaven level is completely different.

Once you become a heaven-level formation master, you can miniaturize the formation and engrave the complex formation into a small spiritual stone.

In this way, you can use the formation to fight against the enemy at any time. If you want to take action, you only need to throw out a spiritual stone with the formation inscribed on it, and you can use the power of the formation to obliterate the enemy.

Therefore, heaven-level formation masters are the most feared beings. Although swordsmen are said to be the most lethal, once they encounter a well-prepared formation master, they will throw out more than a dozen large formation stones once they fight.

, that even a sword cultivator can’t bear it.

Fortunately, formation masters are very rare, even rarer than sword cultivators, and they generally don't care about worldly affairs and only study formation methods, so they haven't caused any big troubles.

But now, Zhao Zhen saw such a formation stone that only existed in legends, and naturally he was also surprised.

"What formation is carved here?"

"The heaven-level spirit prisoner formation is also a great formation that controls the spiritual roots of my Ice Flame Sect disciples."

Bingmei said with a pale face, "We, the Ice Flame Sect disciples, who have reached the martial spirit realm, will be required to drip blood on the Ice Flame Spirit Jade and inject their own spiritual energy. After they do this,

The inner strength of their spiritual roots will be controlled by the power of the formation."

"I see."

Zhao Zhen's eyes suddenly lit up, "In other words, if I master this Ice Flame Spirit Jade, then I will control the lives of the Ice Flame Sect disciples who are loyal to you."

"good."

Bingmei said coldly.

"Well, no wonder you were able to hide your power under the test of Wanbaoxuan's people before. After all, Wanbaoxuan only left you with a low-level earth-level prisoner spirit array. They didn't even know that you still controlled such a piece of heaven-engraved magic.

The formation stones of the Super Prisoner Spirit Formation.”

Zhao Zhen said again, "And because you have long understood the power laws of the heaven-level spirit prisoner array, the earth-level spirit prisoner array will naturally not be difficult for you. This allows you to successfully hide your true power."

"good."

Bingmei nodded again.

"Understood."

Zhao Zhen was stunned, but then he looked at Bingmei seriously, "This can be said to be your last trump card, or your last hope. Are you sure you want to leave it to me?"

"I want revenge, but the premise of revenge is that I have to live and they all have to live."

Without answering Zhao Zhen's question, Bingmei just said indifferently.

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen said no more and suddenly grasped Bingmei's blood-covered right hand with his palm.

"make a deal."

"In three days, I will go rescue people."

Hearing this, Bingmei's body trembled, and the next moment her eyes turned white and she fainted.

Xia He looked shocked, and Zhao Zhen also had serious eyes.

He knew that he had seen the right person, this Bingmei was really ruthless.

He actually buried such a formation stone directly next to his heart. Unless he had great hatred in his heart, he would never do such a crazy thing.

"What a ruthless character, yes, but I think we will work together happily."

Talking to himself, Zhao Zhen said the next moment, "Junior sister Xia He, you should stop taking care of me. You should stay here to take care of her. She will have to recover from her injury for at least two days."
To be continued...